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Morgan Despres is a French economist and central banker, who was the founding Head of the Secretariat of the Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) until June 2021. He played an instrumental role in the creation of the NGFS by bringing together notably the People's Bank of China, the Dutch National Bank and the Bank of England in preparation of its launch at the One Planet Summit in December 2017. He thereafter created and scaled up the NGFS Secretariat alongside the Chair Frank Elderson.

Biography

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Morgan Despres graduated from the ESSEC business and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He also studies at Harvard Extension School. He joined the Banque de France in 2005 and served in various positions, notably in the Financial Stability Department. As the French member of the G20 Green Finance Study Group, he established some relationships with a number of central banks active in green finance and used that network to bring together the first member of the Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).

After his term at the Banque de France, Morgan Despres joined the European Climate Foundation in Berlin as Executive Director and the IFRS Foundation as Trustee. He has also been teaching Green finance at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin in 2024.

Publications

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He co-authored in 2020 "The Green Swan: Central Banking and Financial Stability in the Age of Climate Change." published by the Bank for International Settlement and the Banque de France.

References

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https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/morgan-despres [1][2][3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ "IFRS - Morgan Després". ifrs.org.
  2. ^ "Morgan Després - European Climate Foundation". europeanclimate.org/.
  3. ^ "Morgan Despres". Hertie School.
  4. ^ https://www.ngfs.net/system/files/import/ngfs/medias/documents/ngfs_annual_report_2020.pdf
  5. ^ Helleiner, Eric; DiLeo, Monica; van 't Klooster, Jens (2024). "Financial technocrats as competitive regime creators: The founding and design of the Network for Greening the Financial System". Regulation & Governance. n/a (n/a). doi:10.1111/rego.12629 – via Wiley Online Library.
  6. ^ Bolton, Patrick; Després, Morgan; Silva, Luiz Awazu Pereira da; Samama, Frédéric; Svartzman, Romain (January 20, 2020). "The green swan" – via www.bis.org. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)